An exclusive opportunity that promises to test your mettle is being offered up to anybody who wishes to participate in this year's Freedom Festival.

'Haircuts by Children' invites you to take part in an event that, according to the Freedom Festival Website, "will test your courage and your faith in the future".

"Surrender you preconceptions (and your scalp)", it continues, "to the aesthetic choices of these mini-barbers. A whimsical piece that plays with the enfranchisement of children and the level of trust we afford them".

Just as the name would suggest, after a crash course in hairdressing, a group of children will be given free reign of a salon where members of the public will be invited to what is sure to be the ultimate challenge of both your faith and your vanity.

Solo Hairdressers, located at 23 Posterngate in Hull's Old Town, have offered up their venue for the event that takes place between Friday September 1st and Sunday September 3rd.

The project has been devised by the 'Mammalian Diving Reflex' - a company that has won several awards and accolades for its "engaging collaborations with the community, children and youth" since being founded in Toronto, Canada in 1993.

One of the children who will be present on the day is ten year old Adien who says: "Usually adults are the boss of us and we don't get to do this kind of stuff because we are little kids and we have to wait until we're older. It is really surprising that adults will let us do that to their hair."

While this project, on the surface, is centred around some good-natured fun, it's true meaning is actually much deeper.

Haircuts by Children's Artistic Director Darren O'Donnell explains that while the project is "actually for the benefit of who they will become; for the adults who have to deal with the consequences of eighteen years of political disenfranchisement."

"In the future, every child will be given a pair of scissors and invited to shape our destinies. In the future, every child will be granted full citizenship rights, encouraged to vote, run for office and drive streetcars."

"In the future, children will teach and adults will learn; a playground will be built on every battlefield; and candy will be free."

"In the future, children will be powerful creatures able to cross the street without looking both ways, and hold their breath underwater forever and ever and ever."